Steven Adler Says Guns N' Roses 'Met the Right People at the Right Time'

posted by Andrew Magnotta -

Jun 13, 2018

Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler says that despite the band's work ethic in its early days, it certainly benefitted from some good fortune.

In a recent radio interview, Adler said that when he looks back on GNR's beginning — especially its Appetite for Destruction album — he thinks of all the lucky breaks that helped make the band one of the biggest of all-time.

"The stars were definitely aligned for us," Adler said. " We met each other at the right time; we were in the right place at the right time; we met the right people at the right time."

In case he does get the call, Adler is keeping busy. He recently completed a short tour with his band Adler's Appetite which pays tribute to the rampant success of Appetite for Destruction.

"We're basically going to start off with 'Reckless Life' and end with 'Paradise City,' and everything else and then some," he told Billboard before the tour. "I love playing these songs. I wish I would have been able to play these songs with the guys I wrote them with, but it didn't work out that way."

GNR fans lobbying for Adler and founding guitarist Izzy Stradlin to rejoin the group got their hopes up earlier this spring when ads began appearing around the U.K. teasing something Appetite-related in the band's future.